{"id":94,"date":"2009-12-18T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomjottings.co.uk\/wpress\/?p=94"},"modified":"2014-02-12T14:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T14:00:37","slug":"all-hail-to-the-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"All Hail to the Ale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"James<\/a>Suprisingly in a colony of\u00a0 lager drinkers, the Malt Shovel Brewery <\/a>have come up with a range of decent ales under the James Squire brand.<\/p>\n

The first I tried, the Golden Ale<\/strong>, immediately reminded me of Wychwood’s Circle Master (although obviously it’s hard to make a direct comparison not having the English ales here with me). The Amber Ale<\/strong> comes in somewhere between Goliath and Fiddler’s Elbow and the Porter<\/strong> can see Hobgoblin somewhere in the distance.<\/p>\n

Convicted of Highway Robbery and sentenced to transportation\u00a0in 1785, James Squire was later caught stealing ingredients for brewing beer, the brew was that good that he was given a lenient sentence of a five pound fine and\u00a0three hundred\u00a0lashes.<\/p>\n

By 1806, having completed his sentence and settled in Australia, he had established an estate of 1000 acres, and succesfully farmed the first Australia hops (and\u00a0was given a cow by way of reward).<\/p>\n

It was at this time that he built the Maltings Shovel Tavern half-way between Sydney Town and Paramatta serving the busy trading route along the Paramatta River.<\/p>\n

Historian, Philip Greaves, wrote at the time: “Sailors of many nations who were vague about the locations of Nineveh or Babylon could find their way to Squire’s in a thick fog<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

From his criminal beginnings James Squire ended his life as a District Constable, banker and philanthropist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suprisingly in a colony of\u00a0 lager drinkers, the Malt Shovel Brewery have come up with a range of decent ales under the James Squire brand. The first I tried, the Golden Ale, immediately reminded me of Wychwood’s Circle Master (although obviously it’s hard to make a direct comparison not having the English ales here with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}